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Chapter 425 Who would surrender without conditions?
The idea that Waterman and Sandman are going to surrender might sound a bit strange, but it's actually quite reasonable—Hydra's attitude towards Molten Man and Cyclone is definitely not one of active rescue, but rather active elimination. If they are at risk of being captured by Spider-Man or S.H.I.E.L.D., they will be eliminated immediately.

Conversely, they can only survive if they can guarantee that they will live to carry out the next mission, which is obviously a pointless statement.

In short, the two planned to escape, but only if S.H.I.E.L.D. could guarantee their survival from Hydra's damn curse—that was the most basic requirement.

"I'm pretty sure these bastards are generally up to no good. They'll definitely demand extradition to the United States, or be tried in Western or Northern Europe, trading off intelligence they probably don't have access to at the core level in exchange for a plea bargain and a pardon."

Sylvia was talking to Spider-Man and the others in her little base. She said that the Wild Band had caught a lot of these kinds of bastard criminals. In order to ensure the "objectivity and impartiality" of the Wild Band, they often handed over some really vicious supervillains to the local government.

Basically, in Europe, where the abolitionists are rampant, these guys can't be sentenced to death at all and can find somewhere to continue living a carefree life.

The elementals are even more troublesome. They are spiritual beings, which means that once they are captured, they can easily escape once, making it very difficult for the police to catch them. Moreover, they are extremely dangerous, and each of them can easily cause huge damage in a city of hundreds of thousands of people.

Hearing this, Felicia asked with a mixture of curiosity and defiance, "Then what do you think we should do?"

“Give them a trial, ask them questions, and once the trial is over, just find a place to execute them, then dig a hole and bury them—you don’t even need to bury someone who doesn’t have a body.” Sylvia immediately spouted her outrageous remarks: “If you think it’s not procedural justice enough, you can find a group of victims or their families, hold a public trial, and get everyone to vote for the death penalty.”

"This logic... probably doesn't work in a society governed by the rule of law."

"Yes, so my top recommendation is to kill them during law enforcement, unless they have the intelligence we need, like them."

Sylvia pouted unhappily. Although she still didn't understand why Black Cat knew what Spider-Man was doing just by opening a portal, Black Cat had indeed told her a lot of things. Although these things were all about Black Cat's father, Spirit Cat, for some reason, Sylvia felt that the murderer who killed Felicia's father and the murderer who killed her mother undoubtedly came from the same organization.

That is, the Hydra.

The thought of facing an evil organization that had infiltrated the administrative institutions of various countries and was omnipresent sent chills down Sylvia's spine. What was even more terrifying was that she couldn't guarantee that the Wild Chapter was pure enough and didn't have Hydra members inside.

After all, most members of the Wild Band don't have the same deep hatred for terrorist organizations as Sylvia and her father. Most of them are retired special forces soldiers from various countries who come here to make a living, and they only come because the pay is high enough.

Therefore, it is highly likely that Hydra has infiltrated their ranks.

Now all the clues point to it.

"In any case, this is not a problem for us to consider; we just need to leave it to Fury..."

Before Peter could finish speaking, Sylvia's expression changed, and she looked at Spider-Man with a strange expression. Peter paused for a moment before realizing, "Could it be Nick Fury?"

“You guessed right, Spider-Man, it really is Fury. If I’m not mistaken, it’s about the Elementals surrendering.” Since Nick Fury guessed that Hydro-Man would surrender, he should undoubtedly be prepared to negotiate with them. The group waited for Nick Fury’s arrival, and after he entered, they looked at him. Nick Fury lit a cigarette, then put his hands in his pockets and looked at the group of young heroes, the oldest of whom was under 20: “What’s wrong? Staring at me like I’m going to tell you the answers to your final exams.”

"Wait, can you tell us?"

"If you want, you can skip a grade and go to university. Spider-Man, you can apply for a graduate program in less than two years. Don't tell me you need to take exams."

After giving Peter a disapproving look, Fury first told them some good news: "First of all, your travel plans will be adjusted. You will soon receive news of the incident in Athens, and then your tour group will cancel its trip to Athens and take you directly to Budapest."

Peter paused for a moment, then realized that Nick Fury was playing a trick on Hydra. This sudden arrangement would definitely disrupt a number of Hydra's plans, allowing Fury to discover more Hydra outposts. Of course, that wasn't the main point; the main point was to catch Hydra completely off guard.

Hydra believed that since Spider-Man was a smokescreen for the entire plan, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plan must have started with this smokescreen, even if the timing was deliberately staggered, the itinerary was still relevant.

But Fury decided to launch a surprise attack, regardless of its effectiveness, at least it would have some effect.

"Then I'll tell you that we've obtained some clues, which should basically guarantee our survival, but we still need some time. Of course, we need to know roughly how much intelligence they have. You don't need to tell us the details, just a general range will suffice."

Nick Fury quickly finished his cigarette and exhaled a smoke ring that made everyone uncomfortable: "By the way, Spider-Man, you go negotiate."

"Why do I?"

"Because of trust, the Elementals' target is you, so you are the best person to negotiate with to gain their trust. Tell them that limited pardons, plea agreements, and tainted witnesses are all negotiable, as long as they are willing to tell us something of sufficient value. Make them feel that they are valuable and worth negotiating with."

Peter looked at Nick Fury and seemed to understand something. The Elementals, at least the Hydra, believed they had enough leverage to get S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect them. And what S.H.I.E.L.D., especially Nick Fury, needed to do was to make the Hydra believe that S.H.I.E.L.D. believed the Hydra had those leverage.

He will only consider surrendering if S.H.I.E.L.D. offers him enough incentives.

However, judging from Nick Fury's attitude, it seems that S.H.I.E.L.D. is not concerned about the bargaining chips in Waterman's hands.

"The negotiations with the Water Man are just a smokescreen. Don't you believe he can successfully surrender?"

“Don’t spell everything out, Spider-Man,” Nick Fury laughed. “You always have to maintain a bit of mystery.”

(End of this chapter)